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Hagadera Refugee Camp — UN urban centre

159,549

Hagadera Refugee Camp: 159,549 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,798 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3723; territory: Kenya (KEN). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: -0.0005, 40.3702. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201070,767Estimate
2015108,929Estimate
2020147,553Estimate
2025159,549Estimate
2030172,250Projection
2035186,347Projection
2040201,766Projection
2045213,724Projection
2050226,061Projection

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